MartinK
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I was just doing some thinking. My TD5 is probably getting ready for it's second set of front hubs (the TAY100060). They were last done at 94,000 miles, and I'm now on 175,000 miles.
We long-term D2 owners all know how expensive that is!
Just a thought - now the cars are getting older, lots of people are losing air suspension for coil springs, and removing ACE (especially where the car is already on coil springs)... Making the car more simple and easier to maintain at low cost.
Forking the best part of £500 for 2 new bubs is pretty painful (when the car's only worth £3k).
I'm already de-ACE'ed and on coil springs.
Would it be easy/feasable to use a hub from a different model of Land Rover? Even if this means losing the ABS/TC/HDC (and maybe installing a "normal" Diff Lock from Ashcroft to make-up for the loss of TC/HDC?).
Dumping expensive hubs (and losing the troublesome "thee amigos" for ever), and gaining manual diff lock seems like a decent trade-off to me.
(However I am worried about any insurance implication if you did have a bump...)
Any ideas?
We long-term D2 owners all know how expensive that is!
Just a thought - now the cars are getting older, lots of people are losing air suspension for coil springs, and removing ACE (especially where the car is already on coil springs)... Making the car more simple and easier to maintain at low cost.
Forking the best part of £500 for 2 new bubs is pretty painful (when the car's only worth £3k).
I'm already de-ACE'ed and on coil springs.
Would it be easy/feasable to use a hub from a different model of Land Rover? Even if this means losing the ABS/TC/HDC (and maybe installing a "normal" Diff Lock from Ashcroft to make-up for the loss of TC/HDC?).
Dumping expensive hubs (and losing the troublesome "thee amigos" for ever), and gaining manual diff lock seems like a decent trade-off to me.
(However I am worried about any insurance implication if you did have a bump...)
Any ideas?
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